Entry 112

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis


Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William O. Douglas


Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini, Italian film director

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.
George Orwell

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
George Bernard Shaw